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How the GOP Could Win the Climate Debate
Real Clear Science ^ | July 10, 2013 | Eric Bradenson

Posted on 07/10/2013 7:00:45 AM PDT by snarkpup

Someone in the GOP needs to say it: conservation is conservative; climate change is real; and conservatives need to lead on solutions because we have better answers than the other side.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; conservatism; freemarkets; globalwarming
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To: snarkpup

You’re making a false assumption, and basing policies or actions upon a false assumption is not helpful.


41 posted on 07/10/2013 8:02:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: DManA

Also, you have to understand the real down and nitty gritty reason that sheeperal support anything.

They want to feel self-righteous for believing and supporting it.

And there’s no amount of evidence or argument that shakes that motivation.


42 posted on 07/10/2013 8:03:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: snarkpup

I think that diHydrogen Monoxide causes more deaths annually than Carbon Dioxide. Why not outlaw diHydrogen Monoxide ?


43 posted on 07/10/2013 8:04:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MrB

You sketch for the sheepal a picture of life under the new order - dark, cold, hungry.

They won’t go along with that.


44 posted on 07/10/2013 8:05:36 AM PDT by DManA
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To: central_va
Good points ...

Its warming on Mars, its warming on the moons of Saturn, its warming on the moons of Jupiter ...

Hmm ... what could be causing this ... hmmm ... is there anything they have in common? ... hmmm ... I dont think there are any SUVs on Mars ... but I am not positive.

45 posted on 07/10/2013 8:08:57 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: DManA

I want to sway opinion and prove I’m right. The two are not mutually exclusive.


46 posted on 07/10/2013 8:09:06 AM PDT by AlwaysThinking (Pray, Christian 2 Chron 7:14)
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To: DManA
You sketch for the sheepal a picture of life under the new order - dark, cold, hungry.

The goal of UN Agenda 21 is to eventually reduce the population of Earth by about 85%, to "sustainable" levels.

OK, greenies, Earth Firsters, et als, set the example. Kill yourselves.

47 posted on 07/10/2013 8:10:38 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: AlwaysThinking

Go for it.


48 posted on 07/10/2013 8:11:36 AM PDT by DManA
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To: JimRed

You’ll never find a eugenicist who thinks the breed would be improved by pruning HIS line.


49 posted on 07/10/2013 8:13:00 AM PDT by DManA
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To: snarkpup
"Climate change" is very real, but humans are the last ones to influence it.

I love asking global warming activists what impact they think the following has on "warming": Milankovitch cycles
Galactic year
Solar cycles

All of which we don't fully understand yet but know the radiation we are exposed to makes a difference.

Usually I am met with a couple blinks, a pause and called a name or two. /shruggs

50 posted on 07/10/2013 8:20:16 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The earth has been warming and cooling periodically for over four billion years. What else is new ?

Some (realtive to the Earth's age) recent new discoveries that we actually exist IN BETWEEN ice ages. Its a great time to be alive right now.

51 posted on 07/10/2013 8:20:16 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
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To: snarkpup

“No one seems to be reading the article. The point here is that even if global warming were real and man-made, the wrong people are using the issue to promote their economic policies. “

The classic mistake made over and over by the right is allowing the left to set the narrative on an issue and then attempting to argue for a less draconian solution.

Do not accept the left’s narrative in the first place.


52 posted on 07/10/2013 8:44:13 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Someone in the GOP needs to say it: conservation is conservative; climate change is real; and conservatives need to lead on solutions because we have better answers than the other side.

The author was obviously either stoned or asleep when Newt Gingrich did that climate commercial with Nancy Dingaling Pelosi. Also, the GOP-e embraced Global Warming in 2008, when John McCain ran for President. I guess the author was either stoned or asleep during that time period as well.

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53 posted on 07/10/2013 7:08:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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To: snarkpup

Are these the same GOP people who backed the immigration bill because it’s inevitable and Republicans need to get out in front of it? Same with same-sex marriage?


54 posted on 07/10/2013 9:38:02 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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